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Republicans, realizing Anheuser-Busch is a significant donor, are quietly reversing their position on Bud Light [1]
['Jason Weisberger']
Date: 2023-04-15
Republicans are proving just how for sale their outrage is. Initially, the National Republican Congressional Committee used the outrage over Bud Light working with a transgender actress to raise funds. As Republicans began to realize that Bud Light's parent company Anheuser-Busch is a major donor, the NRCC disappeared their fundraising tweet, and other Republicans have been to remind folks of how 'Murican Bud Light is.
RawStory:
The National Republican Congressional Committee initially used the beer beef to raise funds in its latest "anti-woke" campaign, but on Saturday quietly deleted a tweet critical of the beer, whose owner happens to be one of their biggest donors, Anheuser-Busch, according to the Daily Beast's report.
The outlet reported that the NRCC, which backs Republican congressional campaigns, sent out a now-deleted tweet suggesting that Bud Light "tastes light water."
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The backtracking comes just one day after Donald Trump Jr. called on conservatives to ease up on their boycott of the "conservative-leaning" Bud Light. And just last week, Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) tried to weigh in on the so-called "woke beer" debate, only to have it blow up in his face.
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